John Makeham is Head of the Chinese Studies Department, School of Culture, History and Language, at The Australian National University. He is a specialist in Chinese intellectual history with a particular interest in Confucian philosophy. He recently completed an edited volume on Neo-Confucian philosophy and an edited volume on the formation of Chinese philosophy as an academic discipline. He is currently preparing an annotated translation of Xiong Shili's Xin Weishi lun (New Treatise on Cognition-only), a seminal text in twentieth century Chinese Buddhist and Confucian philosophy.
